Madrid MySQL Users Group will have its next meeting on Tuesday, the 18th of December. Details can be found on the group’s Meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Madrid-MySQL-users-group/events/219081693/.  This will be meeting number 10 of MMUG and the last meeting of the year. We plan to talk about MySQL, MariaDB and related things. An excuse to talk about our … Continue reading MMUG10: Madrid MySQL Users Group meeting to take place on 18th December 2014

Madrid MySQL Users Group will have its next meeting on the 20th of November. Details can be found on the group’s Meetup page. We plan to talk about pstop, which I’ve announced earlier and also the latest changes in MariaDB and MySQL since our last meeting.  The meeting will be in Spanish. I hope to see … Continue reading MMUG9: Madrid MySQL Users Group meeting to take place on 20th Noevember 2014

Madrid MySQL Users Group will have its next meeting on the 24th of April. Details can be found on the group’s Meetup page. We plan to talk about WebScaleSQL and I will give a short presentation on how to build WebScaleSQL RPMs on CentOS 6.  The meeting will be in Spanish. We’ve changed the place that … Continue reading MMUG7: Madrid MySQL Users Group meeting to take place on 24th April 2014

Madrid MySQL Users Group will have its next meeting on 20th March. Details can be found on the group’s Meetup page.

I will be giving a presentation on MySQL replication hopefully aimed at all levels, but covering some details relevant to larger setups. The meeting will be in Spanish.

Look forward to seeing you there.

La próxima reunión de Madrid MySQL Users Group tendrá lugar el jueves 20 de marzo. Se puede encontrar más detalles en la página del grupo.  Ofreceré una presentación sobre replicación de MySQL dirigido a gente de todos los niveles, pero incluirá información relevante a entornos más grandes.  La presentación será en español.

Espero veros allí.

The Malta MySQL User Group (MMUG) met for the second time this Thursday, and compared to last time, we had a much better venue: Ixaris Systems let us use their board room, so we had all the tools we needed to have a good meeting.

We managed to get a group picture before everyone has arrived, so I guess we can call the people in this picture “early birds”.

Once we all arrived, however, Sandro Gauci from EnableSecurity gave us a very interesting talk on SQL Injection security, and general security flaws from a developer point a view. You can find the slides here: sql-injection.pdf.

Here’s a picture of Mr. Gauci while presenting. (Sorry for the obvious problem with the over-white picture — seems like I …

So, we’re coming up on that time again. When I moved back to Malta in order to work for Pythian one of the things that I wanted to do was to involve myself more in the community. Currently, I’m doing this by trying to keep an active blog with tips and tricks, good standard knowledge, and just overall trying to enlighten people. I’m also doing this by organizing a MySQL User Group here in Malta.

We’re set to have our 2nd meeting this coming Thursday, the 28thof August, in Ta’ Xbiex where we have graciously been donated a board room and projector (and parking space, luckily) for use. I’m trying to get one of our members to give a session about security (not only on MySQL, but also on the OS level to secure the process), and I know there is work being done on a presentation on MySQL Cluster, which I personally find …